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Movies, Comics, and Pop Culture with Mike Zapcic of Jay and Silent Bob’s Secret Stash – IT in the D 446
This week, we got to speak to the legend himself, Mike Zapcic. With the recent release of Clerks III, his appearance on AMC’s Comic Book Men, or his countless other podcasts, plus working at Jay and Silent Bob’s Secret Stash, Mike is literally a comics encyclopedia. We got into discussions about the days of past (see: going to Blockbuster on a Friday night)…
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Managing Cloud Complexity with Yan Ness of Verge.io – IT in the D 445
Yan Ness, CEO of Verge.io joins us to talk about managing the complexity of cloud infrastructure. Verge.io consolidates several tools into one platform that doesn’t require a team of people to manage. Before Verge.io, Yan built OnlineTech, so he has plenty of entrepreneurship experience. He talks about starting and running companies, and what led him…
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Sneakers with Rashone Bryant – IT in the D 444
This week, we were joined by Rashone Bryant aka Afrikan Caesar from the Sneaker Box Podcast. Most recently, Rashone was featured on the History Channel’s “Fast History Of, Swoosh Dreams” that you can watch here. We’ve never gotten into sneaker culture on IT in the D and it was genuinely fascinating the way Nike and others have built a…
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IT Job Training for People with Disabilities, Rebranding with Paul Blatt of Gesher Human Services – IT in the D 443
Paul Blatt was back to talk about the combining of two local non-profit organizations JVS Human Services and Kadima. The organization also has a new name: Gesher Human Services. Gesher Human Services (“gesher” means “bridge” in Hebrew) offers career counseling and job placement for job seekers with obstacles to employment, supportive housing for individuals with…
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Email Phishing and Enterprise Email Security with Brian Schneble of Abnormal Security – IT in the D 442
This week, we had a fun chat with Brian “Schneebs” Schneble of Abnormal Security and The Great Security Debate podcast fame. Immediately, we jumped into a couple of personal stories about email phishing that made us laugh, but then things got serious as we talked about companies that have been hit with spoofed emails which cost them well into 6-figures. Brian…
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Fraud Detection, Spirits Distilling, and Coffee Roasting with Dennis Weiss of IPQualityScore, Weiss Distilling, and Sabbath Coffee Roasters – IT in the D 441
No lies—we love when tech entrepreneurs get into the booze business. Dennis Weiss is the CEO of IPQualityScore, owner of Weiss Distilling, and owner of Sabbath Coffee Roasters. Dennis’s story was very similar to the story of Jeff Hussey, Founder of F5 Networks, where IPQS was founded out of necessity. When Dennis was working in the marketing industry and got tired of…
